Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Onion growing shoots.jpg

Onion edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Apr 2012 at 16:37:05 (UTC)

Original – An onion growing shoots

Reason: Good quality and EV, image has been stable in the article for some time.
Articles in which this image appears: Onion
Creator: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 16:37, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nothing special and not high resolution. ~~The article is already loaded with images, including another very similar one showing shoots (one of them should go). The lead image by Fir0002 is the best image for the article.~~ However, all these images suffer from being downsized from their original 10+MP to 2MP (or less in the case of Fir0002's one). While such a small image might be the best we can expect after cropping some distant bird-in-flight photograph, for a studio shot it there is no excuse other than to limit what Wikipedia gets or to hide flaws. Colin°^Talk 18:47, 21 April 2012 (UTC) Additionally, the photograph is not sharply focused and the fake shadow does not correspond to the lighting direction. Colin°^Talk 22:31, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Update I have added two new high-quality images to the onion article and tidied its image use. File:Onion on White.JPG is the new lead image and File:Red Onion on White.JPG is an example of a red onion. Both are full-resolution images, which allows the distinctive texture of onion skin to be clearly seen. The candidate here clearly fails FPC #3. -- Colin°^Talk 22:31, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think the resolution is good enough for this subject. It's very well executed. Clegs (^{engage in rational discourse}) 10:37, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Our best picture of a sprouting onion.--GoP _T ^C _N 11:21, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Needs size reference (a scale or, at least, a statement on the image page as to how large this specimen was). Spikebrennan (talk) 16:29, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Done --Muhammad(talk) 22:10, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant oppose due to low EV; the image is jammed into the see also section. Isn't there a bit on growth or something? Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:36, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm no gardener but don't think this image has much EV at all. What it seems to show is a normal shop-bought onion that has started growing shoots. This isn't how onions are grown, which is either from seed or from "onion sets" -- tiny onions that you plant in the ground. FYI, the article looked like this when this nomination started, where this image was the second of two showing onions sprouting shoots. It was placed in the "propagation" section, where (as explained), I don't think it belongs. The article currently shows a re-organisation of the images I did and the only reason I didn't remove this image from the article was because of the ongoing FP candidacy. Colin°^Talk 13:20, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T (talk) 19:03, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Beautiful picture, but it contributes zero EV. It's not even really in the article.. It's just kinda sitting there by itself. Dusty777 23:13, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:57, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]